[Yaelle]

An administration official said special advisers to the president, or czars, are not required to fill out the questionnaire that runs 7 pages and contains 63 questions. The entire questionnaire, the official said, is reserved for appointees who must win Senate confirmation.

Isn't that interesting?

I know there is precedent for Presidents to appoint these czars, but maybe it's time for this practice of filling the government with people who answer to the President alone to stop.

If the President wants to ask his own advisers about something, he should make sure they are not on our payroll, and that their visits to the White House are known to the American people.

[AFPhys]

Yalle:

They are lying. They have been lying for nearly two years now... everything from not knowing who Rev.Wright was, to denying that Ayres was something more than a professor down the street to the latest: Obama administration lied about not knowing about the Lockerbie bomber release

It is complete BS that they didn't know (as my post just above this one shows)... they simply don't have the courage or decency to admit the truth.

[RowdyFFC]

I always thought that the Cabinet members were his advisors, and his access to government programs.

I don’t ever remember a president requiring more than 3 or four ‘special’ advisors. I do remember presidents gathering task forces to study an issue of primary concern. But they weren’t there for the duration of his term.

Personally, I think these people are Obama’s team for when he gets the revolution he’s so drooling over, ready to take over the government.

This freaking Muslim intends to have his own jihad against citizens of the US. He is a truly disturbed child in a man’s body rejected by both his parents, but who always held dreams that his father would come rescue him from his lonely life at the elite Hawaiian boarding school where his white grandparents plopped him nicely out of the way.